Please don’t do this. One of the best experiences about university is meeting new people. Don’t cut people out of your life because they use the wrong chat app.
I’ve met like 5 people more during my university studies, none of which I kept in touch with after graduating. I kinda regret it but I’m not really a person that makes friends easily (or at all), so whatever. I had different friends outside of that.
I could not wait to end university, so that I can stop using big tech products. Unfortunately people only use products they are familiar with. If they are always on facebook, they use that for groups. Good luck finding a local community uses anything but facebook groups.
Edit: at university, many pieces of info reaches you informally. If you are not talking to classmates, you might miss important news as well.
No, do that. Fully legitimate to choose friends with similar values. If privacy awareness is a big thing for you, do that, really. I survived college without installing Discord. It did bar me out of many groups, but I still had a fairly large circle of friends. I guess Germany is a bit different regarding privacy awareness among younger people, though.
My response would be “Sorry, Instagram is cancer.”
“ok dude too bad we dont care”
Please don’t do this. One of the best experiences about university is meeting new people. Don’t cut people out of your life because they use the wrong chat app.
You mean exactly what the dingus in OP’s post is trying to do?
You think you’d lose friends over saying a social media app is cancer?
If one of their relatives had cancer, it would be belittling that experience. I would not do that unless I wanted to be a dick.
Ok this is a fair point. But saying an app is bad because it doesn’t respect its users should cause no hard feelings between friends.
You lose friends when you refuse to communicate with them because of the app they’re using.
OPs roommate isn’t worth meeting.
I’ve met like 5 people more during my university studies, none of which I kept in touch with after graduating. I kinda regret it but I’m not really a person that makes friends easily (or at all), so whatever. I had different friends outside of that.
I could not wait to end university, so that I can stop using big tech products. Unfortunately people only use products they are familiar with. If they are always on facebook, they use that for groups. Good luck finding a local community uses anything but facebook groups.
Edit: at university, many pieces of info reaches you informally. If you are not talking to classmates, you might miss important news as well.
No, do that. Fully legitimate to choose friends with similar values. If privacy awareness is a big thing for you, do that, really. I survived college without installing Discord. It did bar me out of many groups, but I still had a fairly large circle of friends. I guess Germany is a bit different regarding privacy awareness among younger people, though.
What’s your problem with Discord?